Sharia Custodian of the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussain (a.s.) and host of the Conference Commemorating of Mirza Mohammad Taghi Shirazi, mentioned the objectives of the conference.

On Thursday morning, September 1, 2022, the 7^th General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly of was opened in Tehran with the presence of Shiite elites from more than 115 countries, and closed on Saturday afternoon, September 3 in the Iran International Conference Center in Tehran. On the sidelines of the conference, an exhibition was held with the presence of various domestic and international cultural organizations. One of the booths of the exhibition was for AhlulBayt (a.s.) News Agency - ABNA - in which the News Agency was introduced to the elites of the Shiite world.

Stating that Ta’zieh is an artistic performance that can be better understood in other languages, the head of Ashura International Foundation stated, “Ta’zieh is the use of art. Considering the rituals and capacities of the country, we should use art in its comprehensive and real sense to introduce the AhlulBayt (a.s.) school.”

The First International Ta’zieh Mourning Ceremony will be held on July 26-28, 2022, in Tehran.

In the “First National Festival of Religious Press”, two works from ABNA News Agency won.

The deadline for submitting works in the “Third International Quds Day Cartoon Festival” has been extended.

On Sunday, May 8, 2022, the introductory meeting of the members of the Policymaking and Planning Council of ABNA News Agency was held in Tehran. In the meeting, which was chaired by Ayatollah Reza Ramazani, Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, the appointment letters of the members of the council were given to them by the Secretary-General. The members of the council are Messrs. Hosseini Aref, Khojasteh, Rashed, Zarean, Shariatmadar, Sharifi, Gholami, Farmanian and Kalantari. According to the decree of the Secretary-General, Dr. Abdolhossein Kalantari will chair the Policymaking and Planning Council of ABNA News Agency. He is the Deputy Minister of Culture and Social Affairs of the Ministry of Science, and the Advisor to the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly.

Simultaneously with the holy month of Ramadan 2022, and on the eve of World Quds Day, the call for the “Third International Cartoon Festival of Quds Day” was announced.